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Before the Revolution [Prima della Rivoluzione] **** (1964, Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli, Allen Midgette) – Classic Movie Review 10,790

The 1964 black and white romantic and political drama film Before the Revolution [Prima della Rivoluzione] is an early tour-de-force by the young writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci. It demonstrates his cinematic brilliance, mixing the political with […]

Jan, 14

Yellow Earth [Huang Tu Di] **** (1984, Xueqi Wang, Xue Bai, Tan Tuo, Liu Qiang) – Classic Movie Review 7885

Director Chen Kaige’s remarkable and challenging 1984 Chinese film Yellow Earth [Huang Tu Di] is based on the novel by Lan Ke about a communist soldier, Quing Gu (Xueqi Wang), who comes to a tiny […]

Dec, 05

The Ugly American *** (1962, Marlon Brando, Eiji Okada, Sandra Church, Pat Hingle, Arthur Hill, Jocelyn Brando) – Classic Movie Review 5873

Producer-director George Englund’s 1962 political adventure drama stars Marlon Brando as articulate American publisher and scholar Harrison MacWhite, who is sent to South East Asian country Sarkan as US ambassador. This is an interesting situation but the […]

Aug, 07

The Assassination of Trotsky ** (1972, Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese, Jean Desailly) – Classic Movie Review 5839

Something has gone wrong here with director Joseph Losey’s plodding, unmoving 1972 film about the last days of Leon Trotsky (a somewhat miscast Richard Burton) in a Mexican fortress in 1940. Alain Delon plays his […]

Aug, 02

Jimmy’s Hall *** (2014, dir Ken Loach) – Movie Review

Barry Ward stars as real-life Irish communist political activist Jimmy Gralton, who is deported from Ireland during the country’s ‘Red Scare’ of the 1930s. Ward is excellent but Jim Norton is even better as his nemesis, Father Sheridan, […]

May, 30

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